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Show 1' ii 'I I I i I I 1 1' I'l I v l"l I 1 1 'I I I I I I LONO DEATH LIST IN AQUEDUCT WOKS 4 NEW TOBK, J.n. T. A ! death list a long as fa recorded " in some of -the countrv's worst - mine disssters has resulted frum accidents during th building of S the new aqiieduct from tbe rat- 4 skills to .New York, according. to figure published here. Since ' the first piok wss (track on th aqueduct 00 men have been killed and 8000 injured, meat of the accident having re.ulted a . from explosions of dmamit. Tha engineering work is said to be second only to that of th Panama canal,, wboro 10S7 doatb from violence have oc- curred in the eight vear th canal has been building. At present there are about 11.000 men employed on the aqueduct. ' diniinnfiiiiiinnfiiit |